Portrait of a lady traditionally identified as Sophia Bulkeley, neé Stewart (d.1657), bust-length, in a pink dress with gold embroidery

細節

Attributed to Henri Gascar (Paris c.1635-1701 Rome)
Portrait of a lady traditionally identified as Sophia Bulkeley, neé Stewart (d.1657), bust-length, in a pink dress with gold embroidery
with inscription 'Mlle Buckle [sic.]/Soeur de la/Duchese de/Richmond' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
18 x 13¾ in. (45.7 x 34.9 cm.)

來源

French Private Collection.
with Historical Portraits, London, from whom purchased by the present owner.

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拍品專文

Sophia Bulkeley, neé Stewart, was the younger daughter of Walter Stewart (d. 1657), a physician and M.P. for Monmouth, and the third son of Walter Stuart or Stewart, first Lord Blantyre (d. 1617). Samuel Pepys remarked that she was 'very handsome' when seeing her walking with her sister, the celebrated beauty Frances Stewart (1647-1702), in St James's Park (Diary August 30th 1668). In 1671 she was appointed a maid of honour to Queen Catherine, and in 1673 she married Henry Bulkeley (c.1641-1698), master of the household to Charles II and James II, M.P. for Anglesey and Beaumaris, and brother of the royalist officer Richard Bulkeley (d. 1650).